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Little Fire Ants Invade the Big Island
It doesn't make as much noise as the coqui frog, but the little fire ant has invaded the Big Island, stinging fruit pickers and homeowners alike. >> Read the Full Article
Smokies Park Gets Bugs, Species Funds
Great Smoky Mountains National Park will receive an additional $1 million in its current budget, most of it for fighting a pest responsible for killing hemlock trees and for a program to catalog organisms found in the Smokies. >> Read the Full Article
Birders Eye Winter Hummingbirds, Vagrants
Chickadees, cardinals and titmice are common visitors to a snowy bird feeder. But hummingbirds? That's what Janet Allen saw last year in her yard in suburban Syracuse. >> Read the Full Article
Report Warns Great Barrier Reef Could Die in 20 Years
It could take less that 20 years for rising sea temperatures caused by global warming to kill Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest chain of living coral, a newspaper reported Saturday. >> Read the Full Article
Biologist Says Deer Threaten Ginseng
American ginseng, sister of the Asian wonder herb and a seasonal cash crop in Appalachia, has two obstacles to long-term survival in the United States: Man and deer. >> Read the Full Article
Madagascan Troops Accused of Smuggling Tortoises
Three Madagascan army officers have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling nearly 200 endangered tortoises out of the country on a French military plane. >> Read the Full Article
Scientists Find New Coral Species
Scientists have discovered a new species of brushy coral that flames like a white and pink Christmas tree hundreds of feet below the Channel Islands. >> Read the Full Article
Wyoming to Study Declining Moose Population
Moose populations in western Wyoming have fallen so low that the Game and Fish Department is considering closing the hunting season in parts of the region. >> Read the Full Article
Experts Baffled by Finch Die-Off in Alaska
An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria. >> Read the Full Article
Going Once, Going Twice -- A Chance to Name a Monkey
Britain's Queen Victoria had a pigeon named after her and President Theodore Roosevelt's dedication to conservation earned him an elk bearing his name. Now ordinary people can bid online to officially name an orange and brown monkey documented last year in Bolivia's Madidi National Park, seen by scientists as one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. >> Read the Full Article